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The Missouri Public Defender Commission is asking Gov. Jay Nixon for a $10 million budget increase. Director Michael Barrett said the commission is severely understaffed and the money is needed to hire more lawyers throughout the state. “We’ve gone to the Legislature and the governor for years saying we didn’t have enough attorneys to handle

Wednesday, about 50 supporters came out for a rally at City Hall in Columbia. They were there to support Columbia Police. Radio show host Gary Nolan organized the rally. The group clapped as police cars drove by. A group of opposition protesters also chanted, “black lives matter.”

University of Missouri students will move in and start school in the next two weeks. With nine confirmed mumps cases on campus, ABC 17 News asked the University what it’s doing to notify students and staff and what steps it’s taking to make sure the virus doesn’t spread. “This is the first time that I

Thousands of CPS students will be walking around with an iPad in their backpack this school year. Fifth- and sixth-graders will have the tablets, so will all students at Battle High School. “It’s just like a text book being issued to a student. They are responsible for it. Just as they would be for any

Fulton firefighters are fighting a different fire these days after the city council voted 7 to 1 against a union contract that would have given them a 9 percent raise. City administrator Bill Johnson recommended the council reject the raise and ultimately the contract because he said 9 percent is too high and unfair to

The Cole County Sheriff’s Department recovered a body early Monday morning off of Route AA, southeast of Russellville. The department’s investigation began after it received a request to check on 23-year-old Samantha Rhein. Authorities said he had not been heard from since August 4, when she texted her mother to come get her. The body

High pressure at the surface will continue to track southeast over the next day, allowing winds to shift to the south for Thursday. This will bring in slightly warmer afternoon temperatures, with highs reaching the upper 80s. In the upper levels of the atmosphere, a large ridge that has kept us dry and tranquil will

A law firm representing the Columbia Police Officer’s Association sent a letter to city manager Mike Matthes concerning his response to the Association’s Facebook post. The letter claims Matthes interfered with police officers’ choice of a collective bargaining representative. It also claims he threatened to oppose any ballot measure to add officers or increase wages

Generally, severe weather season is termed from mid April through mid June in Mid-Missouri. However, thanks to the position of the low level winds, we can see a few days with severe weather heading into August and September. Just this year, since August 1st, we’ve had 3 days with confirmed severe reports, mainly strong wind

Firefighters are on the scene of a house fire on Court Street in Fulton. They responded to the scene near the intersection of Court and 8th Street shortly before 6 a.m. Wednesday. Firefighters tried to get in through the front, but had to back out because of the intensity of the fire. Two people were

Karrie Mitchell saw a man in a plaid shirt when she returned home Tuesday afternoon standing at the front door of a neighbor. She felt it was suspicious, considering the man wore long sleeves and a backpack in early August. After heading into her house for a few minutes, she heard a sound at her

Boone County commissioners voted to replace a controversial Desert Storm memorial on the Boone County Courthouse plaza.County commissioners voted Tuesday morning to replace the memorial with a new statue that does not include a Christian symbol. The old memorial with the Christian symbol will be moved to the Columbia Cemetery. This comes nearlyafter residents expressed

A group known as the police wives of Callaway County spoke out for their husbands Tuesday, saying they are being dehumanized. ABC 17 News met with the women who said the group didn’t come about just because of events in Ferguson. They were organized before the unrest started in Ferguson, but a recent post to

A Columbia man is now charged with child pornography, after detectives said they believe he videotaped a neighbor’s child through a window. The Boone County Sheriff’s Department Cyber Crimes Task Force arrested a Steve O’Neill, 35, Monday for possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of a minor. Tuesday, O’Neill is charged with sexual exploitation

McAlester Park, LLCtodayreleased the design of a new development in downtown Columbia. The new six-story building at the corner of 9 th and Elm will include retail on the first floor, office space on the second floor, and 50 apartments above. The design of this new building was influenced by the Downtown Columbia Community Improvement

Early Tuesday morning, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released scores from this past April’s Missouri Assessment Program test. Students take the state test every year to monitor their progress, but this year’s test was a little different. Elementary school students took the test online for the first time. “You can do some

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The Boone County fair has packed up and moved on for the season. Now it’s time to decide what to do with the more than 125 acres owned by the county. “It’s a great time for us to pull in a lot of different ideas. Some of them might work very, very well for space.

Every year from about July 17 to August 24th Earth crosses the orbital path of comet Swift-Tuttle and runs into the debris left from the comet. The debris enters our atmosphere at 130,000 mph, burning up as it falls through the sky. We see these burning particles as meteors or sometimes referred to as “shooting

Two University of Missouri fraternities asked the Columbia City Council for more time to install fire sprinkler systems. In 2009, the city put a new law into effect stating all fraternities and sororities in the city must have fire sprinkler systems, Brad Fraizer with the Columbia Fire Department said. That year, six Greek houses asked